The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam

by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad

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The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 149

149 1953 reflected on the issue of the possible outcomes of this belief. The sitting judges Justice Mun i r and Justice Kiy a n i wrote that in the genuine Fatwa (Ex. D. E. 13) by the Diyuband i D a rul ‘Ul u m the Shias are Kafirs and Murtad (apostates), and: "According to the Shias all Sunnis are kafirs, and Ahl-i-Qur‘an, namely, persons who consider hadith to be unreliable and therefore not binding, are unanimously kafirs , and so are all independent thinkers. The net result of all this is that neither Shias nor Sunnis nor Deobandis nor Ahl-i-Hadith nor Barelvis are Muslims and any change from one view to the other must be accompanied in an Islamic State with the penalty of death if the Government of the State is in the hands of the party which considers the other party to be kafirs. " 149 Today Islam is in danger from within the world of Islam. This is a most horrific conspiracy that is being led today by the American ‘colonization’. The countries under the influence and domination of USA are pushing forward the death penalty for apostasy. These oppressors aim for the Muslims to destroy each other rather than to divert their attention to them. They are fully aware that the weak [Muslim] governments 149 Report of the Court of Inquiry, Punjab Disturbances of 1953 – Page 219. [Publisher]